Chapter 6. Coding Examples

Table of Contents
Code Model Overview/Architecture Constraints
Position-Independent Function Prologue
Data Objects
Function Calls
Branching

LSB-conforming applications may implement fundamental operations using the Coding Examples as shown below.

Sample code sequences and coding conventions can be found in Itanium ™ Software Conventions & Runtime Architecture Guide, Chapter 9.

Code Model Overview/Architecture Constraints

As defined in Intel® Itanium ™ Processor-specific Application Binary Interface, relocatable files, executable files, and shared object files that are supplied as part of an application must use Position Independent Code, as described in Itanium ™ Software Conventions & Runtime Architecture Guide, Chapter 12.